What's the difference between muggy and stickiness?
Muggy
Definition:
(superl.) Moist; damp; moldy; as, muggy straw.
(superl.) Warm, damp, and close; as, muggy air, weather.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was a vivid green morning, the air muggy and sad.
(2) Willian is believed to have "held talks" with Chelsea, in which pleasantries about the muggy London weather, the comfort of his hotel room and the size of the number that will appear on his weekly pay-cheque were almost certainly discussed.
(3) "Bit of an education," she murmurs as they walk into the muggy heat.
(4) That Palace should still end up inflicting a second defeat in four matches for the champions thanks to Joel Ward’s winning goal, stabbed in after more good work by Bakary Sako, was both fair reward and a fair reflection of the poverty of Chelsea’s performance at a muggy, uncomfortably close Stamford Bridge.
(5) Ghostpoet's music is perfect for that atmosphere of muggy dread.
(6) While plying his trade in the cold, blustery conditions of Arbroath's Gayfield Park on Scotland's North Sea coast isn't exactly perfect preparation for the expected 90% humidity of Natal in July, Deuchar has played in similarly muggy climates during his time with Real Salt Lake in the US and was an integral part in helping the fledgling club to their first Major League Soccer play-off appearance in 2008, earning him the nickname Doctor Goals.
(7) In these paintings, imitations of cave drawing (without the dexterity of the real thing) mix with muggy abstractions and Jackson Pollock-like paint splashes.
(8) Romelu Lukaku continued to wage his personal crusade against West Ham, scoring on his seventh successive appearance against the Hammers on a muggy, wet afternoon at a subdued Upton Park.
(9) One can only pity the actors who turned out for filming at London’s St Paul’s Cathedral on Saturday in full Cybermen costume, as temperatures hit a muggy 28C.
(10) For an afternoon in the muggy Swiss sun, and for 45 minutes on the pitch, Liverpool turned Basel red.
(11) On a muggy, misty December morning it took more like 50 minutes as traffic crawled along the coast road past joggers, cyclists and Cariocas playing football and volleyball on the beach.
(12) The pitch-side air was muggy but this did not stop Charlton Athletic’s Johan Gudmundsson enjoying a flying start, rattling Almer’s right-post with a peach of a 25-yarder virtually from kick-off.
(13) At Quai des Celestins, near Place de la Bastille, on a Friday morning, the traffic speeding along the riverside highway flanking the muggy grey Seine is relentless.
(14) Stepping on to a red carpet at the Royal Malaysian Air Base, Obama was whisked by limousine to Kuala Lumpur's Parliament Square, where a 21-gun salute rang out as Malaysia's king and prime minister greeted Obama under muggy skies and a yellow awning.
(15) Inside, the windows were misted up and the air was dank and muggy.
(16) It’s Valentine’s Day, a muggy Saturday afternoon, and a group calling itself Resistant Citizen is staging a rare anti-coup protest in the middle of the Siam Square shopping district.
Stickiness
Definition:
(n.) The quality of being sticky; as, the stickiness of glue or paste.
Example Sentences:
(1) The texture of a food item can be distinguished in hardness, toughness, stickiness, juiciness and chewability.
(2) The outstanding advantages in microsurgery are as follows: (1) After moderate hemodilution had been performed, blood stickiness was so reduced that the resistance of blood stream was decreased.
(3) Most of the drugs tested were designed to target the accumulation of sticky plaques, called beta-amyloids.
(4) Among junior high school students the results suggested that consciousness about and interest in such factors as gingival bleeding, bad breath and sticky feeling in the mouth caused better dental health behavior.
(5) In addition, the co-aligned configuration of the ends of the sex-chromosome axes of this species and the lack of silver-stainable threads or filaments connecting them suggest the existence of two mechanisms for association of the sex chromosomes during prophase I and metaphase I: attachment of the ends of both sex chromosome axes to the nuclear envelope and heterochromatin "stickiness."
(6) The most relevant factors causing these differences were: saltiness, fluor flavor, stickiness, dryness, and uniformity of color.
(7) The onions are easy to store and to handle, and the root tip cells constitute a convenient system for macroscopic (growth, EC50 values) as well as for microscopic parameters (c-mitosis, stickiness, chromosome breaks).
(8) For primary explorers, build habitats out of cardboard with sticky tape and get them to decorate their designs.
(9) I like your advice about having a sticky note on the phone, saying: "Lunches are better for me."
(10) Remnants of the highly viscous and sticky contrast medium that remain attached to the vascular wall complicate the technical procedure of anastomosing.
(11) Illustration: Virtual Design Agency As the original sketches were made from sticky tape, the corners of the letters in the final design are missing.
(12) Kazimierz Karasinski has been honorary consul of the UK in Krakow for 16 years, helping British citizens in sticky situations.
(13) This station, with its quarter-mile, 300kph trains, a huge cocktail bar, a branch of Foyles stocked with 20,000 titles, a smart Searcy's restaurant and brasserie, independent coffee bars, floors covered in timber and stone rather than sticky British airport-style carpet, new gothic carvings, newly cast gothic door handles, and a nine-metre-high sculpture of lovers meeting under the station clock?
(14) I couldn't handle the hangovers: waking up in the sticky filth of the Colony Room on the floor; sweating my way though meetings at White Cube; going to meet Larry [Gagosian] on the Anadin, the Nurofen, the Berocca and the Vicks nasal spray, looking like an alcoholic tramp.
(15) Now he has tipped the prime minister and the chancellor into the sticky stuff.
(16) She says it began as a "defence mechanism" – "it gets you out of so many sticky situations" – but it has now become the means by which Delevingne communicates her sense of fun, in a world where most models seem to adopt a bored, peevish expression of someone queuing to return a faulty toaster in Argos.
(17) This "sticky" interpersonal style may be particularly common in TLE patients with a left sided temporal lobe seizure focus.
(18) But in and among the general approval, there was the odd titter that such a well-established prize should find itself being backed by a purveyor of sticky drinks.
(19) Macroscopic examination of the 97 explanted prostheses provided information on their integrity (38.1% of prostheses ruptured), gel differentiation (24.7%), sticky surfaces (26.8%), surface deposits (33%), memory folds (54.6%), and Dacron fixation patches (20.6%).
(20) It has been shown that sulfinpyrazone is able to interfere with the dynamic interaction between sticky Walker-256-carcinosarcoma cells and the vascular endothelium.